According to the binding site structure and the catalytic mechanism of the native glutathione peroxidase (GPX), three glutathione derivatives, GSH-S-DNP butyl ester (hapten Be), GSH-S-DNP hexyl ester (hapten He) and GSH-S-DNP hexamethylene ester (hapten Hme) were synthesized. By a four-round panning with a human synthetic scFv phage library against three haptens, the enrichment of the scFv phage particles with specific binding activity could be determined. Three phage particles were selected binding to each glutathione derivative, respectively. After a two-step chemical mutation to convert the serine residues of the scFv phage particles into selenocysteine residues, GPX activity could be observed and determined upto 3000 U μmol−1 in the selenium-containing scFv phage abzyme which was isolated by affinity capture against the hapten Be. Also the scFv phage abzymes elicited by different antigens displayed different catalytic activities. After a directed evolution by DNA shuffling to improve the affinity to the hapten Be, a secondary library with GPX activity was created in which the catalytic activity of the selenium-containing scFv phage abzyme could be increased 17%. This study might be helpful for new haptens or antigens design to optimize the abzymes with high binding activities and might also provide a novel scheme for GPX mimic candidates for drug development.A novel two-step sequential screening strategy used for the improvement of GPX mimics and other abzymes.相似文献
We hypothesized that neuroprotective agents targeting various pathways involved in cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury might be superior to that targeting single pathway. Here, we prepared a fusion protein (B-I) by combining anti-apoptotic Bcl-xL (B) and anti-inflammatory IL-10 (I). B-I could cross blood brain barrier by its N-terminal TAT domain, and be cleaved into separate B and I by Caspase-1. B-I treatment significantly reduced the cerebral infarct volume, better than Bor I treatment alone, and equivalent to B and I treatment (B+I). Treatment with B or B-I significantly attenuated I/R-induced neuronal apoptosis as shown by the decrease in apoptotic rate and the inhibition of caspase-3 activity. Moreover, all recombinant proteins, especially B-I, remarkably attenuated I/R-induced up-regulation of TNF-α. These results suggested that fusion protein B-I inhibiting both inflammation and apoptosis provided better neuroprotective effects than inhibiting either one alone. Our study suggested that multiple pathways targeting brain I-R injury could enhance the neuroprotective effect, and it provided a new idea for the study of neuroprotective drugs for ischemic stroke. 相似文献
Public speaking anxiety refers to feelings of nervousness when anticipating or delivering a speech. However, the relationship between anxiety in the anticipation phase and speech delivery phase is unclear. In this study, we used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to record participants’ brain activities when they were anticipating or performing public speaking tasks in an immersive virtual reality environment. Neuroimaging results showed that participants’ subjective ratings of public anxiety in the anticipation phase but not the delivery phase were correlated with activities in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the inferior frontal gyrus, and the precentral and postcentral gyrus. In contrast, their speaking performance could be predicted by activities in the temporal gyrus and the right postcentral gyrus in the delivery phase. This suggests a dissociation in the neural mechanisms between anxiety in preparation and execution of a speech. The conventional anxiety questionnaire is a good predictor of anticipatory anxiety, but cannot predict speaking performance. Using virtual reality to establish a situational test could be a better approach to assess in vivo public speaking performance.